Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.
BENAZIR BHUTTOThe forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated… Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
More Benazir Bhutto Quotes
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The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.
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All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.
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Military or dictatorial rule is not good for our Pakistan.
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
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I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held ‘elections.’ Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
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The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man’s place in the Islamic society.
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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
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My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
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Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
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I dream …of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
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